When loging out from kde, my system crashes completely. The kde screen disappears leaving a black screen. There is no response from the keyboard (the caps lock light does not come on when pressed) and I cannot ssh into my computer from another one. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to kmenu - press logout 2. Select "log on as a different user". 3. Click ok. Actual Results: Complete system crash to black screen. Expected Results: Brought up a new kdm login window. Computer configuration: IBM ThinkPad A31 Radeon 7500 Mobility graphics card xfree-4.3.0-r3 xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7 Not using kernel drm nor framebuffer. If xdm is in default runlevel, this problem happens. If it isn't and startx is used to launch kde, there is no problem. I've fixed this temporarily by going back to xfree-4.3.0-r2, keeping xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7. It does not happen even with xdm in default runlevel. Other people are having a similar problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=107531&highlight=kde+logout+crash
I just experienced a similar situation with xorg-x11-6.7.0 and kde-3.2.2 except that the crash happens only if I logon on as root (yes I know this is a bad thing to do) then logout. Then my machine totally locks up. As a regular user I am not seeing the logout crash. Since I suspect this may be a problem with USE flags, I may totally rebuild kde to see if the issue goes away. This would be with CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" As a footnote, I did exerperience weird issues with konqueror and web page / graphic rendering until I rebuilt kdelibs with the flags above. My old settings were quite aggressive, i.e., FLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -msse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -fforce-addr -frerun-cse-after-loop -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=1" which was what the remainder of kde (minus a recent security update) was built to.
Well, recompiling didn't help, but the following procedure based on http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78826 did: mv the following files/dirs in offending user account home directory to a temporary location (e.g., ~/tmp): /.fonts /.kde /.mcop /.qt /.skel .ICEauthority .Xauthority .dmrc .mcoprc Then retest the logout scenario. Before deleting ANY old files copy back carefully some selected config files (kmail, korganizer, etc) afterwards.
#78826 is resolved as a duplicate of a as invalid resolved bug report, so I'm closing this one too. Nevertheless, I'm not convinced that there is no problem with kde config files.
